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W2M bot jus signed in yay.. website seems to be back up... this post will reveal if my sig is working again...

Edit: It is... awesome... hope it lasts! Can't get back into the W2M site to quote the service status/downtime explanation (saw when I went there briefly).. maybe in 10 mins ill try again...

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Originally posted by Posted at 11 Dec, 2005, 2:07:01 by Aziraphale

Reason For The Downtime

Update: We've brought the site back online with Status Images only being regenerated once per hour for the time being. When we fully optimise the caching and get a more powerful server that period will be reduced again, but I still don't think that an hour is a huge period of time for an image that shouldn't be changing very often anyway.

You've all noticed that we've been down for quite some time (well, just over a week, I think). This was originally due to a hacker somehow altering this forum and making it direct somewhere else where an Internet Explorer exploit was hosted. We took the opportunity to try and find a new host, which we did, and we moved there, were back online for a few hours, then realised that the server wasn't powerful enough to host Web2Messenger so we took it offline again. The server was going to get upgraded or us moved to a more powerful server, but the deal fell apart for various reasons I see no point in detailing here.

We are currently in the process of negotiating a new host on a server powerful enough to handle Web2Messenger, which uses a lot more power than a lot of people realise, myself included.

We have brought the forums back online so people can discuss what's happening and find out what's going on, but the main site (status images, specifically) uses so much processing power that it isn't currently feasible for it to be online.

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Edit 3: Been taken down again